Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-99.73.35.159-20181005201301/@comment-35243530-20181016125454

After I lost my first post, I swore I wasn’t going to do another long one. Most of these points have been made, but it looks like I’m going to offer my perspective anyway, so here goes!

I also played the game alone for a while as I didn’t realize the value of friends until I looked for and found this Wiki. I had a friend tell me about Wiki in another game, so when I had a question Mytona didn’t answer, I went looking for this. Of course, by that time I’d been playing a while. I didn’t register here at first, but I did sign my name to every FU post that I made. (That sounds vaguely obscene, but it isn’t meant to!) And so I discovered TT! It wasn’t possible in the game I used to play, so it hadn’t occurred to me to try it in this one. Okay. Not looking for sympathy, but here goes anyway. As many of you already know, I have a mother with dementia. I also suffer debilitating chronic pain, thanks to an ex who threw me down a very long, very steep set of stairs, damaging my back, and a corrective surgery, years later, that failed. (They tried to stabilize my back, but the bone didn’t grow in around the screws so - as many of you already suspect, I’m sure - I’ve got a few loose screws! Ba Da Bing!)  Thanks to all that, I suffer from both depression and anxiety. The game, for me, is a way to keep my sanity (well the game and an incredibly wonderful husband!). Some days I’ll play all day, when I can’t do much else. For me, in addition to allowing me to multi-gift my amazing game friends, TT allows me to play as long as I need to to keep my mind from going places I’d rather it didn’t. I’m pretty sure that I couldn’t afford to pay for that privilege and still have money left over to pay the mortgage, bills and eat, since I’ve been known to binge play 48 hours or more when it’s just not possible to sleep. Now I’m sure one of our FU friends would say that I’m rationalizing here, and maybe I am, but for me TT can be life saving. Is it cheating? Maybe. It’s against Mytona’s ToS, but I haven’t decided yet whether it’s actually cheating or not. To me, cheating is gaining an unfair advantage over other players in an ill-gotten manner. I don’t see what unfair advantage I’m gaining. Desirability as a friend because I visit consistently and multi-gift? Is that an unfair advantage? I’m not sure how. The ability to remain sane by playing? Okay - ya got me! That might be a little more of a grey area considering some of the people on here. 😹😹😹🤣🤣🤣😹😹😹 But seriously, I don’t see it. Topping the leaderboards? In case no one’s noticed, I don’t! I’m pretty sure in order to do that I’d have to spend some serious money and I’m just not willing to at this time. Since the game, by and large, is played as a solo effort, I don’t see how I’m hurting someone else’s gameplay.

I started during the event in the snowy yard, so I was shocked when I realized the other day that I’ve been playing for about 9 or 10 months now (I think?). Because I binge play so much, I usually find I get bored of a game fairly quickly, unless there’s a human component, and sometimes even then. The last game I played, I found players turning on each other far too often. Several times I found it happening to me for reasons that were simply beyond my comprehension and it ruined the game for me. (If anyone ever thinks I’ve attacked them personally, they’ve likely misinterpreted what I was trying to say. Experience has made me paranoid about this!  Feel free to contact me on my wall if that situation ever arises, but when I attack someone, I’m pretty blunt and obvious, I don’t tiptoe - just for the record.)  I’m very pleasantly surprised by how civil everyone is on this forum! I’ve seen very few attacks on anyone - most are focused on helping each other - so pause everyone and give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back! But I digress! Over that period of time, Mytona has changed many things about the game. Some of those things have enhanced game play, but many have not. Is that a breach of their implied contract to make the game enjoyable for us? I like to think that we’ve simply compensated for some of that. Besides, didn’t I read somewhere that Mytona was responsible for the initial posts regarding (and encouraging) TT? Seems to me that if they’re complicit in us doing it, that if they’ve sort of swept it under the proverbial carpet, that it must be okay. I don’t think they’re really losing money (or sleep) over it, since many of us who TT still spend money on the game and if we couldn’t TT, we’d be more likely to have gotten bored and moved on to something else by now.

Anyway, for better or worse, those are some of my thoughts on the subject.

Mistress Kat