Thread:Ancbo/@comment-43541445-20190919221837/@comment-37927318-20190922014411

Hi Pam. And I have always wanted to go to Australia! Was planning to try to get to a project near Alice Springs but now my health has taken a downward spiral, so I am unwillingly retired. Happy Birthday to Hubby!! I was married 12 years what seems a lifetime ago, now am very alone, he passed from pancreatic cancer. Coincidentally I picked up this game when recommended as brain exercise too - my Mother just passed in April at 94 having suffered the last 10-15 years with Alzheimers. I started last November at Thanksgiving.

TT must be careful. For a long time I went very slowly 3 days back and then stopping at each day forward to send passes until I got back to current date. It took me many weeks to get comfortable with it. I never go forward from current date! For me the driver for TTing is to refill energy. It is also useful to be able to gift more than 10 CIs per day. If you see 3-5 gifts from me at one time this is what I have done to play more without having to buy or use food items. There is no requirement to TT if you feel uncomfortable with it - you will still have plenty of friends :-) At least you will still have me!

Check the 2nd paragraph of my first response to you - about the TYs (Thank You) are the random gifts generated when we Accept AND Thank during receiving of passes or gifts. I am trying to coax people to limit the number of TYs I receive but it isn't working very well. So I can't really go more than about 2 hours without clearing my box after sending like today - and can't very well put items on a Wish List either without worry of losing them in the event of exceeding 499 gifts. Maybe eventually at least some of my friends will give me some relief. Have to click once, then when at the bottom of the list, just X out instead of clicking 'receive all and thank'. The ones you do not click once will still be there when you open the GB again. "No TYs Is OK" I suppose could be improved upon, huh. LOL.

I think I sent you a few fixers on your list during my TT today. At level 147 you should be getting most if not all, of the fixers dropped either dropped during regular game quests or as gifts from others--- unless you are not completing the regular game quests on the left side. Some of the fixer drops are linked to quests - as well as one monster The Griffin. In my experience, following the regular game quests typically 'take me' to the locations or situations where I would have to go anyway to complete the guardian quests, so the time I have available infuences which is the driver for my effort that morning. Looking at your board it appears you play a lot outside the quests, maybe for events or just locations you prefer - is this correct? Another factor is if you regularly combine collections before a game quest leads you through to complete it. If you are in a game quest and it take you to a location you detest, you can just stop and put that item on your wish list and continue when you receive the item - as long as the quest stage circle is still on the left side of your game board, the game thinks you won it and will proceed to the next stage of the quest. You could play the guardian or other while you wait.

I find that even those sites I really did not like at first became tolerable with a bit of practice (mine, tree house, snowy yard, treasury, Lair, etc)  Even the puzzles became tolerable eventually, but I never gave up LOL. Still do not like Candy World but I have been going there to practice lately when the mood strikes and I am 'in between'.

Some people use the monster banishing as a source of energy - they can be like a bank, so I try to keep around 500 each of their banishing tools. The other is as a source for anomaly dispellers or runes, flasks & flowers for crafting items for trade (also an energy source as well as fixers - I try to keep 15 each of the trade items in stock)  Periodically you will see me put "PlsChg3Crftrs" in my name for 2-3 days to prepare to use a Magisterium talisman and craft the 3 different rocks for dragonflies and cotton. On a good 2 hour run I can make 70-80 sets of the reagents, then I make the DFs and Cottons later when the crafting charges have built back up and sometimes use another talisman to speed up the process. My regular crafting I do when I TT and for the long time items I adjust the clock forward (same day!!) to speed it up. Note: this old ipad is really only used for this game now as most other programs I had on it before are no longer supported on the older IOS version. Hopefully I get myself a new IPAD for Christmas :-)  Then I may create a second game and feed myself!

OK I have gone on and on... so I will leave you to it hoping your Hubbys Birthday celebrations were wonderful and memorable. 70 years young!! I just turned 60 this past June.

Have a great weekend!

Barbara, your new game buddy currently in Louisiana USA