Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33688810-20171122220138/@comment-4974000-20171129061920

Hi Violet - I think part of the issue with the crafted-and-exchanged fixers is that they used to be free to give. (Not directly from the Send tab, but from someone's wishlist ribbon while visiting). That apparently wasn't an intended game feature, it was a bug, and it was closed a while back. So there are still posts knocking around saying, "put fixers on your wishlist" because once upon a time, they were easy-peasy to give. And people cruise through, see them, and follow that advice, not knowing that's no longer the case and probably wondering why they don't get them.

There does come a point where those things are easier to get, but not actually easy. People further along talk about having more coins than they can use. I never have that happen, because every time I get to 200,000 coins, I craft ten of all the small fixers, and 5 x cotton and 5 x dragonflies. So my coin balance is often near zero, LOL, but my fixer balance is high.

But I would have spent a good few hours time-travelling and hitting the trophies and crafters to get them, or spent a talisman to boost my coins from the game, and they do run down pretty fast while assembling collections. So although I have a decent number of them, I never take them lightly. I actually generally won't assemble collections that need cotton or dragonflies after the first time, unless they're artifact components or give something really special as a reward. Each of those suckers is worth 9000 coins, and some collections need four of them!

I do occasionally give the crafted fixers, since I can spare them up to a point, but I don't do it really often. Most people do have enough coins to craft their own most of the time, so I don't think it's really necessary to give them to help anyone through the game anyway, and I'm assuming they're mostly on people's lists because of the old guidance rather than because they're desperately needed. I gave a few clips away recently when I accidentally made some extras of one, and if someone who gives me CIs regularly gives me something and I don't have anything they want at the moment other than a fixer, I will give one then. I've only given cotton once, to an extremely generous and frequent CI giver at a relatively low level (which means she routinely gives things she probably only has two of, rather than five!).

You do give gifts, so it's not at all greedy to have CIs on your wish list, please don't worry about that. It's only bad form to have them there, IMO, if you don't give anything other than the auto-random-thank-you gifts, because you're asking for things people worked for when you don't even use your ability to give for free. The friends system works because everyone can help someone some of the time - higher levels can help lower ones get over humps on rarer fixers, lower levels can help higher levels when they have a run on some passes and fixers, everyone can help everyone with CIs, everyone can help everyone with charging locations. And some of those things are free, so everyone can do something even if they're low on coins or rubies or all the collections are one short or whatever, which is great, because we all go through periods of being that person, even when you're at higher levels (although a bit less often). So in my mind, the system works because it has momentum, not because everyone is giving perfectly at every moment. As long as you're doing something regularly, you're part of the momentum and it's cool to ask to get something out of it.