Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40112086-20191111180949/@comment-40112086-20191111184727

It's hard for me to say exactly what I've learned. This forum has completely changed the way I play the game. Before I usually just followed the main storyline quest - and played the events but never really tried to do well in them. I didn't have any locations past virtuoso (maybe the puzzles). I combined every collection - always needing fixers. I visited friends but usually sent a fixer if I didn't have anything on the WL. And I would charge trophies along with locations. I did occasionally TT for energy (though I didn't call it that) but I'd go FORWARD to get the energy and then back to play. I'm really lucky that it didn't mess up my quests.

After I starting coming here and reading, I stopped charging trochies, learned about the different talents and about sending passes. I think Heather and LinLu and Bellatrix were the first friends who accepted me and when I started getting tons of passes from them, I decided to learn to TT. I decided to work on getting my first location black and chose the ship, I put PO8 in my name and ended up with not only a lot coming in, I also had a friend send me like ALL the collections for pieces of eight. I was so amazed. It really is inspiring to me. Now I try to find collections to send. I'm still not as good at that as I want to be. I really need to pay more attention to who my non TTing friends are for the energy collections for example.

When others started posting about game goals, I took that in also. I go for weeks without playing the storyline quest now - even though I still have some of it left. Instead I work on my own goals. My big picture goal is to get all the locations to virtuoso or hiigher (currently detective). I have several weekly goals on specific locations.

I've also learned to use tailismans more effectively, strategies to play the events and that I can pass on an event - I did on starcatcher last month.

I think those are the big ones for me.