Thread:Annefb/@comment-32299476-20180923032117/@comment-32299476-20180923211907

For me it is a non-thinking game, so for recreation.

When I started playing I was unemployed after the second job in a row moved out of state with no real offer to have me go with it. I had a part time job, and with savings, earnings and unemployment managed to get by on a strict budget until I was hired full time two years after losing my FT job.

I was playing something called Gummy Drop, a match 3 game, and SN came up as a free hidden object game to download.

I came in playing in the middle of the Mirror Hall event. Because I am competitive, I wanted to complete the event. Over the next couple of months, I even spent money(which was food budget) on the game, because I kept running out of tools, and event passes. Then I went hunting for answers, found this wiki, and discovered TT. I use an iPad, which is one of the easiest platforms to TT on. Eventually, I screw up, but by turning the clock back to almost the starting point, I can run a talisman for days. I start the talismans at 8:57 pm, play til 9:55 pm, then exit the game completely, (double click the iPad home button quickly twice, and slide game offscreen), then set the clock back to 9:01 pm. Open game and play, repeat. As long as you remember to close the game completely, you can even reset the clock to real time and do other things. Then before you open your game, reset the clock to 9 pm on the day you were playing previously, and whahla, the talisman is still running. Since you cannot gift or visit easily more than once when rocking the clock or TT, it did cut down on my participation with my friends. Plus, I’m a bookkeeper in real life, so I don’t play much from December thru April.

For a while, I worked on finding all items in the room as quickly as possible. Only to come to the conclusion that you don’t gain much of anything if you finish quicker. I think now, I might be gaining more event passes if I finish quicker, but I haven’t tracked my winning and my time to state that as a fact.

I like winning the poster, chests and avatars, so if I have time, I’ll continue to play the events to win. I rarely play an event room during the event, once I’m at Virtuoso, because it takes so many plays to build up the event passes. I’m goofing around with it this time because I’m working on building up collections I can pass on to my adoptees.

I’m off to work now, will probably read responses later tonight.