Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44680058-20200108214832/@comment-44123106-20200109060415

For the Emerald Event, I realised that any non-green rooms gave fewer emeralds, since there were fewer items to find, and after finding this wiki, wrinkles taught me that I didn't have to open new rooms, so I decided to get all open rooms to detective before opening the next. I was doing this without the main story quests, which I follow, until I realised that not doing the banishing quests for new monsters was stalling them! Now I'm getting the quests relating to Museum, Enigma house et al. My first task each day are the DGQs - and I try to link these with the main story quests, the event or just getting the rooms to detective where possible. I've stacked the quests relating to unopened rooms - they will start running again once the rooms are open. Sometimes these are all I have time to do.

Yes having the rooms at a higher level costs more energy, but also gives more reward. Now I've worked out what blocks the quests, that should be less of a problem because I'll be doing the quests at the lower levels.

I like to do the events, and like Steffie, have been changing style with each event. I didn't focus on getting past Virtuoso last time, but reached 60%: not enough for Top200, but I will look at that later in the year - too busy this month. I'm not chasing the stars or event room this time; I never get beyond a stock of about 300 EAPs before playing the room, but I have nearly 500 catchers. I'll probably play them at the weekend for the energy and then run talismans for a long play. I think I'll probably get the paws (need them, I still can't afford the Mouse!) just before the end of the event. I will get the room to Virtuoso, and depending on the prizes and available time to 50%; this time I'm seeing how far I can get without really trying. I tend to play the room to use up the last few energy points as my "charge" gets towards empty. When I need to amass EAPs, I'll play my Teal premiums to get more passes and level them up to green.

I'm going to concentrate on the crafting mini event this time (if there is one) so I can stock up on SoVs; the main quests will have to wait at that point.

Having lovely friends means I never need worry about APs or fixers...I'm currently stocking up on Beans because I will open TRTSNBN when I get the key - part of a long term plan: get all the premiums open so that I can generate more EAPs. I still have far more Lollipops that Beans...weird how that works.

My other long term goal is to work out how best to use talismans more effectively. I'm reading the tips on the wiki and incorporating the tips.