Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33614060-20171115032238/@comment-4974000-20171115062848

There isn't really much of an advantage to levelling up on specific buildings, with a couple of exceptions. Firstly, you will soon enough have a quest to solve [x] room with the [y] anomaly - anomalies won't come until you've passed out of novice in that room. So you probably want to progress out of novice before that happens, otherwise you'll have to play ten games there just to open it up to anomalies (I speak from experience, ugh).

More broadly, there are actually downsides to levelling up on a given room - they cost more energy to enter the higher you go, for instance. (You do get more coins to compensate, but coins only really start to matter a fair way into the game. You're unlikely to be at risk of running out of coins until you're in the 40s or 50s levels, when you start to get collections that need 4 x cotton or 4 x dragonfly. Two or three of those back-to-back could see you run right out - again, I speak from experience. But it's a time-limited problem, you do build back up).

I played a lot of extra games for fun early on in locations I liked, and I sort of wish I hadn't in some ways - it made later game play a bit harder. It doesn't really matter in the long run, but just following the quests would have been easier in some ways.

If you're looking for other things to focus on and learn about besides quests, things I'd suggest early on are -

1. Trophies. Your trophies give only token help to start with, but they get more lucrative as you level them up. Take a look at how close you might be to the next achievement level for trophies and think about what you could do to get them up. (Medallions don't give any help besides token ruby rewards, don't worry so much about those). For instance, I recently used up a bunch of low-value energy boosters to get to the next stage of the energy trophy, and now it gives me more help each day.

2. Friends. I followed the prompts and added a couple of random friends early on, but I didn't learn about this properly until comparatively late. Understanding how friends work and how to make the most of it makes a huge difference to your game play.

Oh, and one more early-on tip. The puzzles get a lot harder as you go along. I would suggest trying to get your trophy for the winning streak on puzzles early, while they're still easy, even if you have to use some flying time to do it. And maintain the streak through all three levels in one hit so you don't have to start a new streak fresh. As someone who got that trophy in the level 60s by sheer bloody-minded determination, you will never have the chance to do it so easily and cheaply again! Make it a mini-project and knock it over.