Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31669116-20171126193639/@comment-4974000-20171127234109

Magic folio doubles your experience for game levelling up (37 -> 38, blue stars) not location levelling up (Detective -> Virtuoso). Frankly, other than getting out of Novice to be eligible for a needed anomaly, and getting your Virtuoso/etc medals, you probably don't really want to level up on locations - it just makes them more expensive in energy and passes to play. Whereas levelling up in the game is positive - it opens new locations, unlocks new fixers in the normal rotation, means you can send a wider variety of fixers to others and be more likely to get a wider variety in return. In my experience, it sometimes resolves the "humps" the game throws at you as well.

If you're able to Time Travel you can also jump days and hit your trophies, you can get a good supply of access passes. (If you're not willing/able to risk "full" time travel with dates, you can do a safer version by letting your trophies charge, jump back twelve hours, hit them, forward twelve and wait a minute to charge but don't hit, back twelve again and hit, and repeat. This is safer than "real" TT IMO because you're still within normal variance for a real-world day, taking account of time zones etc). Access passes are given by the Investor trophy, which you get by spending coins. In the earlier levels you tend to earn far more coins than you can use, so spend them. Stockpile craft-and-traded items - cotton, thread, dragonflies, hair clips, etc. (Especially cotton and dragonflies - you'll have a run on them in the level 40s or 50s that may see you temporarily go broke, so try and get to the point of having a dozen in reserve). If you're doing a mini-TT, you can also craft in the past and pick up the present, and consider paying the rubies to open the extra spot in each crafter's shop if you can afford it.

Violet, I didn't realise the diagram and winding key weren't freely available at the lower levels. They become common enough for regular Seeker's Star use when you get a bit higher. In the meantime you probably have a couple of Eagle Eye or All Seeing Eye from trading collections, which give the same effect (just for less time and not quite as good). While you're waiting for the diagram and winding key to show up in your rotation, use those sparingly and make full use of the time when you do, but you can definitely use them to get you past a hump where the game is holding a collectable back.