Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34560043-20181005110305/@comment-37136133-20181008144223

So Hi, All... I’m new to this forum. I searched around and found my way here 5 days ago as I began to think about whether there were features of the game that made playing less tedious and nerve wracking. I’ve been playing a year and really just got the game for the enjoyment of working the puzzles. Only recently did I start paying attention to the friends component and realized you get a few perks from visiting and gifting, dropping hints etc. Then I noticed that everyone seemed to advance in levels faster than me. I only have pockets of time to sit and play and leveling has been slow going. That’s what made me wonder if I was possibly missing some key aspects of the game. So, looking for answers and tips I saw everyone talking about TT and that players have been using it for eons. What a life saver! Why didn’t I find this sooner?! Just being able to stock up a bit more energy so I could play for longer than 10-15 minutes when I have ample time to play was a game changer! Praise Jesus! I actually managed to squeak out my first ever event completion when the lab event was over!

This was 5 days ago. I’m on an iPad Pro and my apps update automatically. Imagine my horror when I sat down to play around midnight Friday night, opened the app and let the update do its thing, hopped back in time to get enough energy to play for about 45 minutes before going to bed and discovering it doesn’t work. I came on the boards and saw the messages on the changes with the update. My heart sank. Everyone has been using this method for years! I JUST figure out how to do it and they cut it off 😫😫😖 The drudgery of this game - needing passes, having to do other locations to get the passes and getting stuck attempting to solve a puzzle location forty thousand times to get an item and draining all the energy, wait a few hours and come back to do the event location once because you have just enough passes, then run through a couple other locations for more passes, run out of energy, wait a few hours, do it all over again - UGH. I’ve used talis a few times but they always end up getting wasted because real life has no respect for my time. Just, ugh. I enjoy the game, I just hate hate hate the way games these days make it so you can only play for short spurts of time unless you spend rl money to buy more time. I refuse to give in to that. I mean, they aren’t making money by designing a game with limitations that force people to have to close it and come back after certain period of time. That is not pleasurable gaming. If anyone discovers any new work arounds, PLEASE post. ....Back to grinding for the 6 minutes it will take to deplete my energy bar again 😕