Thread:Harborbay/@comment-29954643-20161214072135

Hi Rae, So sorry to hear about your cold, it can stop you 'dead in your tracks'.

You hate the cold, yet you live in Illinois? OK, it was either school/job OR a guy, right? Also, there's Chicago and then there is Illinois :-)  I used to work for a company that had a district office in a place called Schaumburg and I taught some tech classes out of their ED centre.  Also, I spent a summer in the early '70s at Chanute AFB in Champagne/Urbana, which, I believe, closed in the early '90s.  BOTH places were pretty hot and muggy in the summer and cold and windy in the winter, but the people were really nice!

Also, I spent the fall of '94 on-site at Duke Power in Charlotte. Fall was beautiful there, but of course, not a coastal city.

As for gifting, I got too 'picky' in my message about the gifting. You may have noticed that I deleted most of it because I was being a dope (I got my feelings a little hurt reading a discussion on here). I realized, too late, that even if you did send a key, it was my fault. I had broken my own rule and didn't check your level, and you couldn't do anything but what you did do (so so sorry). I have never known what to do in this case, but I usually don't send anything, or I send the highest level CE available for me to gift or I send a 'paid' item (fireflies/ladybugs/carrots/arrows/tokens) or a CI that you have a zillion of. I'll try very hard to never do this to you or anyone again!

My preference is when I see a mixture of CIs/CEs. It lets me gift more than 1 item to a person without time traveling (TT), if I have a surplus. I guess, all CEs is better than all CIs and check to ensure that your lowest level friend is able to gift a CE. You seem to have gone to the other extreme lately, but really it is entirely up to you how you want to play. I'm going to butt out, unless you ask me what I think.

In reference to the Xmas event. Keep trying to get those quests, by hiring sleuths, when you're in the correct mode for the quest. Also, if you have them have the diamond horseshoe or another fortune talisman running at the same time. It gives you a better chance of getting the quest item because these increase the number of rewards, therefore, a better chance of getting the one you need. Be careful, not to 'gather' the holiday quest collection just because you have all of the items. You need to wait to gather when the quest says so. I've seen some people have all 5 of a collection (gotten as rewards or from Pandora chest or some other way), and because they had all 5 and gathered, they were missing them when the quest says to gather and then they couldn't because they didn't get them during the quest. I hope that was clear because event quest CIs can't be gifted in the regular game and some people are whining on here because they gathered too soon.

As for Xmas Ornament balls. What can I say? They are very stingy with them because they want you to buy them with real money. You'll notice more frequent and better deals as time goes on, but definitely don't succumb too early, if at all. You said that you were playing on a android tablet which should mean that you still have 16 days to play. Check back in with me in a week, and I will try to point you in a direction where you might get some help if you haven't given up yet. Every event in this game is like this, so you might as well relax, and get used to it :-)  

I see that you are already at level 39 (you're climbing steadily), with 101 friends already? I just purged my FL back down to 100. I will probably reduce it further by the end of the year. I like to gift daily without TT, but again, to each his own!

Stay inside, get plenty of rest when you can, play when you aren't too tired, and mostly have fun and a happy and healthy holiday season      - El 