Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34343471-20191012224822/@comment-44076733-20191013212704

The main thing to start with is setting realistic goals, challenging but not frustrating. Knowing how much time and money somebody is willing to invest on a daily, weekly or monthly basis is the key to figure out what's possible in that regard.

As for the friends aspect, for me personally that is not a very reliable source for reaching my goals. I lost quite a few good friends over the past year who were time traveling, gifting and visiting like crazy and then quit the game from one day to another without a warning. I still have a few friends who TT but often times I end up with a lot of Thread and Tar or other more or less useless things that are not on my WL. So far I didn't get rid of any of those friends as I still appreciate the gifting itself. And after all, I am not time traveling (Kindle Player) so who am I to have high expectations then in that regard.

I used to play the low energy premium rooms a lot, meaning the Clothing Store, Dressing Room and Garden but having the rank of an expert for all those rooms it means I would need 350 access passes per room to just play each room 10 times. And 10 times is nothing when you want to collect lots of Event Access Passes. But getting those 350 Access Passes for those rooms is a big deal and for me personally again nothing that I could expect from my friends on a daily basis.

So instead I play the Cafe, Train Station, Alley and Mayors Office a lot. They are all very low energy and I can usually finish each of those rooms in less than a minute. This usually povides me with enough EAP to reach my monthly goal. Slowly but steady.

I found that it helped me a lot too when the daily quests started. Before that a lot of the mini events requested playing Treasure Box and Haunted Lights over and over again. But the outcome in terms of the amount of EAP was more or less frustrating. I still like to play the Treasure Box but more for the fun and less for EAP.

And last but not least it's the aspect of every monthly update. We just never know what we gonna get and if the game is still running smoothly afterwards. This is not in our hands and might therefore mess up our goals. That is the most frustrating one as it is out of our control. For some more than for others. My game is still far from running smoothly right now with the game quitting every few minutes. So for this month I just don't have any big goals as it is simply not realistic anymore at this point. But on the other hand it is more time that I get to spend with my family.

Hoping that the next update will be a better on, Baja