Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37437697-20181113234653/@comment-34343471-20181114020105

Last fall I had a strict budget to keep from breaking the bank on this game. Often, I could only play locations which didn't require as much energy and had to ignore the quests. Then I found this forum in January. The people here are wonderful and I started to be able to play the game the way I wanted to play it without going broke. It helps me to figure out how much it costs me per hour. Last fall I started at $2 an hour but that was too much so I reduced it to a dollar an hour and then to 50 cents an hour. I was just buying energy and didn't purchase anything else except eyeglasses. I refused to buy fixers, passes and whatnot. Sometimes I was stuck on a quest for weeks because I didn't want to pay to buy a fixer or whatever. The puzzles were very challenging for me. I would do a puzzle and fail. I didn't want to pay for tools and I was out of energy so I would have to wait an hour to get enough energy to try again. Sometimes this would go on for hours. Wait an hour, play Treasure Box, fail, wait an hour, fail,  repeat. When I found this forum in January, my costs went down to 25 cents an hour and kept dropping. I do buy a few things every month. I play this game a good deal and am OK with spending SOME money on the game just not $$$. Opal