Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31848579-20170512201131/@comment-31982627-20170512234108

So far for the nine events I've played (not including Mirror Hall) I've purchased accesses to finish three of them (or else I wouldn't have been able to finish in time). I paid cash, not rubies, but you can convert to rubies just using whatever the going price for rubies in your game is at the time. I didn't spend more than $10.00 per event on accesses for those three events and considered $0.0125 or $0.0133 per access a good deal (less than one and a half cents per access). The most I paid was $0.02 per access for one of the events and I paid that because I knew that once I bought some they would offer me a better deal the next day or the day after and they did. When looking at the deals that pop up, I not only consider what they cost but how many plays I will get from them in order to advance - e.g. 400 accesses will be 16 plays at Detective level or 16% increase towards Virtuoso level. I believe you need a total of 3,285 accesses to complete one of the event locations from Novice 0% to Virtuoso 0.0% so keep that in mind when deciding how many to purchase and how much to spend. When I first started playing I bought a lot of Eyeglasses with my rubies - currently you can get 10 for 7 rubies. As long as I had Eyeglasses I could get by without the other three tools, which are considerably more expensive (currently 70 rubies for 10). Also, you can use the Detective of Genius artifact to win more tools as you play. A final caveat, don't pay too much attention to MyTona's 55% off or whatever percent off they claim it is, their math was wildly inaccurate in the past (unless they've improved their math skills in the meantime :). Hope this helps!